The Great Days

ISBN:0575018151, Hardback in pictoral dust jacket, published by Victor Gollancz, printed in Great Britain. 189 pages, 35 black and white glossy plates. yellow front and back end papers. Table of contents, List of illustrations, index. Published with the following Dedication on front leaf "To Reinhold Messner, last youthful hope of the great. tradition of mountaineering." Bonatti has been a great north wall man and he describes here thos of the North Wall of the Eiger, the Grandes Jorasses, the Whymper Spur, and the Matterhorn -- the first solo ascent by this route. He also writes of expedtions as far apart as the mountains of Greece and those of the Siberian arctic.